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Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Due In August?

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Due In August | According to Neowin….

 

Microsoft have been steadily testing an update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

 

The update which will RTM in August is expected to include support for the upcoming Xbox 360 and the following:

  • Native digital cable
  • Content Protection
  • Improve burning (DRM, network, Hi-def, DVD-RAM)
  • MCX on WinCE clients (Babylon, TV2 as stretch goal)
  • Playback reliability
  • Running 3rd party apps out of proc
  • Address top usability issues
  • Platform Security
  • Additional languages and locales

The update is currently being beta tested and is at Beta 2 stage. A release candidate 0 is expected to be released late July with an RTM following on August 12th for English, French, German, Korean and Japanese versions. Dutch, Italian and Simplified Chinese versions are expected to follow 2 weeks later.

Published Sun, Jun 19 2005 12:58 by chrisl
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# When Will Media Center Update Rollup 2 Ship?

Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:08 PM by TrackBack

# When will the next Media Center update arrive?

Chris Lanier asks the rhetorical question, When Will Media Center Update Rollup 2 Ship? According to Neowin, what we know now as Windows XP Media Center Edition Update Rollup 2 RTM’d on August 12th (Last Friday).  However, when might the actually web release be if it RTM’d on August 12th? ...

Sunday, August 14, 2005 6:28 AM by TrackBack

# Is the latest Media Center update ready yet?

On Saturday, I wrote briefly about a post that Chris Lanier published on his site, which speculated about the ship date of Windows XP Media Center Edition Update Rollup 2. So ... did that code actually ship as scheduled last week? The Neowin article that Chris used as his source...

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:40 AM by TrackBack

# re: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Due In August?

So when will it be released?

Monday, September 05, 2005 1:39 PM by chrisl

# Neowin Covers Media Center Updates

Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:49 PM by TrackBack

# re: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Due In August?

Has been released yesterday on the Microsoft OEM website. I downloaded the english version, but cannot find any release notes. I cannot install it due to a localised version (that is not available yet).
Sven

Friday, September 16, 2005 5:29 AM by chrisl